1 on both the Cashbox and Billboard Hot 100 chart. 37 on the Billboard 200 album chart during the week ending September 25, 1965. The album, Eve of Destruction, peaked at No. "Eve of Destruction" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. McGuire's other chart successes were "Child of Our Times" and "Cloudy Summer Afternoon (Raindrops)" (penned by Travis Edmonson of the 1960s folk-duo, Bud & Travis). He left the Christys in January 1965, after recording the album Cowboys and Indians, although, on the 1965 album Chim Chim Cher-ee, he sang on the title cut.Īs a solo folk rock singer in the 1960s, he was best known for his hit " Eve of Destruction", and "Sins of a Family", both written by P.F. In 1963, McGuire, along with Randy Sparks (the founder of The New Christy Minstrels), co-wrote and sang lead vocal on the Christys' first and biggest hit single: Green, Green. It also included "If I Had A Hammer", released three months after the release of the same song by folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Under Horizon Records, they cut their first and only album as Barry & Barry, titled Here And Now, which contained songs such as "Gold Wedding Ring", "Land Of Odin", the single "Another Man", "Summer's Over", "You Know My Name", "Bull 'Gine Run", and "Far Side of the Hill". They continued to perform their separate duo act there as well as performing with The New Christy Minstrels. There they joined The New Christy Minstrels, a large folk group, and McGuire later sang lead vocals on their novelty single " Three Wheels on My Wagon". They performed original folk songs at The Ice House, a small folk club in Pasadena, California before moving on to The Troubadour in Hollywood in the spring of 1962.
In 1961, he released his first single called "The Tree", which was not a hit. After working as a commercial fisherman, and then going on to become a journeyman pipe fitter, McGuire got a job singing in a bar. Rykarda coined her own dusky sound as “Rock Noir”, which much like Film Noir, is stylishly dramatic, steeped in cynicism and sexual motivation with unpredictable shadows lurking around every corner.McGuire was born in Oklahoma City and his family moved to California when he was two years old.
Equipped with a true writer’s sensibilities and a dynamic vocal instrument, she often performs using an intimate sing-talk delivery. It is this continental experience which colors so many of her personal narratives. In recent years, Paris has been her home base, studying and writing or commuting/performing throughout Poland and beyond playing solo or with her Warsaw-based band. Then on to Europe, where she now spends most of her time. She began her music life in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin, Texas. The daughter of Swedish and Israeli immigrants, she grew up in a mixed-culture household. Though born in America, her worldview and experiences are eclectic. Yet her mode is a unique electric mix that combines vintage sounds of Murder Ballad, French Pop, Motown, and Brit-mod-rock as if adding pinches of Jacques Dutronc to The Brian Jonestown Massacre for good measure. Her lyrics, delivery and shadowy tone have garnered favorable comparisons to Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Edith Piaf, Johnny Cash, Greg Dulli and the like – as well as literary types such as William Faulkner and Christina Rossetti. The songs leap out fully formed, controlled and knowing. Autonomy has come to define much of her work, which is an alchemy of literature, culture, psychology, existentialism and human interaction. Like any traveling bard, she has stories to tell, using her dangerous, gender-bending vocals to weave tales of identity, experience and adventure…įor a decade, Rykarda has been the captain of her own musical path, writing and producing four strong full-length albums from lyrics to voice and instrumentation to creating her album art.
Rykarda Parasol was born and raised in San Francisco, but has seen the world.
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